Red-crowned Cranes Dancing
Inspired by Denise's new guide, I decided to give a first try to something Out of the Box. This is a Topaz Simplify watercolor, very mildly applied, as I am just getting my feet wet. I am looking forward to reading Denise's Filter Guide, since I have so much to learn.
Comments/suggestions please.
D300, 1/2500s, f/5.6, ISO 400, 270mm (if this means anything in this forum?)
Michael, I'm assuming these were from your trip to Japan? You nailed this one!! Excellent use of the filter. I love the poses and I think you have just the right amount of detail in the heads. I'm debating a sliver off the bottom. Very appealing, and thank you for the plug and the purchase!
Love the attitude (pose) and filter treatment, Michael. The separated primaries are cool. Thanks for sharing your processing.
Hi Michael and welcome to OOTB! You got a very nice look here and the only thing I would mention is the intersecting line of the bg. It's not too distracting in this image, because of the implied upward motion of the birds, but having a unified bg would make this nice image even better. Looking forward to seeing more posts from you!
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Wow, this is great. I love the children's book/illustrated look. As presented, I would crop a bunch off the bottom. When you go back to Japan, raise the lens a bit ! :)
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Very nice, Michael! Two awesome poses, and I love the paper cutout/illustration look from the filter treatment. Excellent job!
Thanks for all the helpful comments. The main issue seems to be a lot of white space at the bottom. In reality the cranes are leaping fairly high off the snow-covered ground, and, in the original, realistic photo, there is more detail in the ground and more of the sense of leaping. I didn't realize when I did this version that you can no longer tell where the cranes are relative to the ground.
Rather than crop out the bottom, I tried a small rotation which minimizes the snow and maybe gives more of a sense of leaping. It does leave the tree line at an angle, but maybe better over all?
Michael, I think this does look better. A small clean up in the ULC.
Nice repost Michael. I think Arthur summed it up with the "children's book/illustrated look". Wonderfully done!
Michael, a beautiful illustrated effect-it looks somewhat like a woodblock print to me. Welcome to OOTB
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